You need to install SAMBA

David Ally david_ally at yahoo.com
Sat May 17 12:24:39 BST 2008


Hi,
You surely need to install SAMBA for your Ubuntu installation to interract with MS Windows network and do some configuration on Ubuntu machine regarding those drives on Windows server in order to gain full access to the content. Read the help file that comes with Ubuntu, it is very straight forward.
David 


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  1. Re: New Edubuntu user (Charles Austin)
  2. Re: New Edubuntu user (Manu)
  3. 64bit server and 64 bit clients (Nicolas Roussi)
  4. Re: 64bit server and 64 bit clients (David Van Assche)
  5. Re: 64bit server and 64 bit clients (Nicolas Roussi)
  6. Maximum Addressable RAM (Butch Arias)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:02:48 -0400
From: "Charles Austin" <ceaustin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New Edubuntu user
To: "Edubuntu-users list" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lois Castro <lois.castro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 2-Up to know, we've had a school-wide Vindows Server 2003 network. There are
> different drives, one for teachers, one for students, a shared one and so
> on. Students and teachers also have permissions set here, with username,
> passwords, etc... I installed Ubuntu on a few workstations and it
> immediately connected to the internet and detected the Windows network, but
> it doesn't seem to be able to access any of the drives. Also, passwords and
> permissions are not recognised. As I said, my knowledge of networks is very
> limited. Any suggestions here?
>
If you can see the Windows drives, you should be able to connect with
this format (assuming you are being prompted for a username and
password):

Domain\Username
Password

I cannot remember if the slash after the domain is a forward or
backward (try it both ways).

Hope that helps,
Charles



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:25:42 +0200
From: Manu <manu at ubuntu-fr.org>
Subject: Re: New Edubuntu user
To: "Lois Castro" <lois.castro at gmail.com>
Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hi,
>
> 2-Up to know, we've had a school-wide Vindows Server 2003 network. There are
> different drives, one for teachers, one for students, a shared one and so
> on. Students and teachers also have permissions set here, with username,
> passwords, etc... I installed Ubuntu on a few workstations and it
> immediately connected to the internet and detected the Windows network, but
> it doesn't seem to be able to access any of the drives. Also, passwords and
> permissions are not recognised. As I said, my knowledge of networks is very
> limited. Any suggestions here?

See this doc
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/Kerberos

You need the Kerberos library for connecting the Win2003 server's sharing

Hope this help you

Manu
-- 
Emmanuel Le Normand
Ubuntu-fr / Edubuntu-fr



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:21 -0400
From: "Nicolas Roussi" <nroussi at gmail.com>
Subject: 64bit server and 64 bit clients
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hi all,
I just setup up an LTSP server on ubuntu 8.04 and the edubuntu add on
package. I installed everything but when I connect a client it gives me the
following:
PXE-T01: File not found.
PXE-E3B:TFTP Error - File not found

The server is 64 bit and the clients are 64 bit capable. I did some digging
and I found my /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf. This is what it has:
#
# Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
#

authoritative;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250;
    option domain-name "example.com";
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
    option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
    option routers 192.168.0.1;
#    next-server 192.168.0.1;
#    get-lease-hostnames true;
    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
    option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
    if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
        filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
    } else {
        filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";
    }
}
I know the error that PXE is giving me is  because I did not run this
command

ltsp-build-client --arch i386

and the i386 image file is not created. My question is: Is it possible to
have amd64 and i386 image files and select which one the thin client uses to
boot? Maybe by modifying the if statement in dhcpd.conf or have options on
boot of the thin client?

Thanks
-- 
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:45:53 +0200
From: "David Van Assche" <dvanassche at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 64bit server and 64 bit clients
To: "Nicolas Roussi" <nroussi at gmail.com>,     "Edubuntu Users Group"
    <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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For 64 bit clients, you need to feed pxe with amd64, not i386. So change
your dhcpd.conf file to have /opt/ltsp/amd64

The /opt/ltsp/amd64 directory and the image should already have been created
when you installed the LTSP server.

Kind Regards,
David

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Roussi <nroussi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just setup up an LTSP server on ubuntu 8.04 and the edubuntu add on
> package. I installed everything but when I connect a client it gives me the
> following:
> PXE-T01: File not found.
> PXE-E3B:TFTP Error - File not found
>
> The server is 64 bit and the clients are 64 bit capable. I did some digging
> and I found my /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf. This is what it has:
> #
> # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
> #
>
> authoritative;
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>    range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250;
>    option domain-name "example.com";
>    option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
>    option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>    option routers 192.168.0.1;
> #    next-server 192.168.0.1;
> #    get-lease-hostnames true;
>    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>    option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
>    if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
>        filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
>    } else {
>        filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";
>    }
> }
> I know the error that PXE is giving me is  because I did not run this
> command
>
> ltsp-build-client --arch i386
>
> and the i386 image file is not created. My question is: Is it possible to
> have amd64 and i386 image files and select which one the thin client uses to
> boot? Maybe by modifying the if statement in dhcpd.conf or have options on
> boot of the thin client?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Nicolas Roussi
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:42:41 -0400
From: "Nicolas Roussi" <nroussi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 64bit server and 64 bit clients
To: "David Van Assche" <dvanassche at gmail.com>
Cc: Edubuntu Users Group <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID:
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Thanks for your reply. But my question was if it is possible to have both
chroot architectures (amd64 and i386) and have the client select which one
to boot from. Anyway, I created an i386 image and it the clients boot fine
and I can log in through the GDM. My problem though is that I cannot log in
to the thin client through the command line. I followed this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ?action=show#head-285f03d2d3ed2f29847c7793dbdb8f1488814c1band
when I try to log in as root I get the error that my account is
expired.
Is there anyone that has a solution to this?

Thanks

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:45 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For 64 bit clients, you need to feed pxe with amd64, not i386. So change
> your dhcpd.conf file to have /opt/ltsp/amd64
>
> The /opt/ltsp/amd64 directory and the image should already have been
> created when you installed the LTSP server.
>
> Kind Regards,
> David
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Roussi <nroussi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just setup up an LTSP server on ubuntu 8.04 and the edubuntu add on
>> package. I installed everything but when I connect a client it gives me the
>> following:
>> PXE-T01: File not found.
>> PXE-E3B:TFTP Error - File not found
>>
>> The server is 64 bit and the clients are 64 bit capable. I did some
>> digging and I found my /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf. This is what it has:
>> #
>> # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
>> #
>>
>> authoritative;
>>
>> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>>    range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250;
>>    option domain-name "example.com";
>>    option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
>>    option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>>    option routers 192.168.0.1;
>> #    next-server 192.168.0.1;
>> #    get-lease-hostnames true;
>>    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>>    option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
>>    if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
>>        filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
>>    } else {
>>        filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";
>>    }
>> }
>> I know the error that PXE is giving me is  because I did not run this
>> command
>>
>> ltsp-build-client --arch i386
>>
>> and the i386 image file is not created. My question is: Is it possible to
>> have amd64 and i386 image files and select which one the thin client uses to
>> boot? Maybe by modifying the if statement in dhcpd.conf or have options on
>> boot of the thin client?
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Nicolas Roussi
>> --
>> edubuntu-users mailing list
>> edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
>>
>>
>


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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:06:15 +0800
From: "Butch Arias" <butch.sps at gmail.com>
Subject: Maximum Addressable RAM
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Dear Ubuntu Techies and  Users,

Our school has been on Edubuntu for three years now and we have been happy
with it. Last year we used as server an Intel Core-2 Duo with 4 GB RAM.

This coming school year I plan to add more thin clients, from an existing 16
we plan to add about 24 more. The thin clients we will be using this time
are old IBM Celeron 766 32 MB RAM we got from a second-hand computer shop.
But if we will add more thin clients then we would need more than 4 GB RAM
(RAM - 512 MB Server, 128MB per thin client). In this case I believe we need
to use the 64-bit version the fact that the i386 could address only up to 4
GB RAM.

Questions:
  (1) Will the 64-bit version work with Intel Core-2 Duo?
  (2) If it will work (or I will use an AMD 64) would there be NO problem if
the thin clients are 32-bit?
  (3) I tested a unit (32 MB RAM) and it worked with Edubuntu 7.10. Is 32 MB
enough or I need  64 MB for 8.04?
  (3) In case the setup for 64bit Server and 32-bit client will NOT work:
      (3a)  Will it be possible to divide the thin clients (to divide the
CPU load) across two servers (4 GB RAM each) but still share a common disk
system?
      (3b)  Will it be better to have two separate network servers and use
just enough thin clients until the server runs out of RAM required for the
clients? How may users access their files in case they logged in the other
"network?"

Thank you very much in advance. Your previous help have been very useful
indeed.

Butch Arias
Saint Philomena School
Lucena City, Philippines
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